Wiktionary:Word of the day/2025/April 17

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Word of the day
for April 17
bane n
  1. (countable) A cause of misery or ruin.
  2. (countable, archaic) Chiefly in the names of poisonous plants or substances: a poison.
  3. (uncountable, chiefly poetic) Misery, woe; also doom, ruin; or physical injury, harm.
  4. (uncountable, UK, dialectal, veterinary medicine) A disease of sheep in which breakdown of tissue occurs; rot.
  5. (obsolete)
    1. (countable) A person or thing that causes death or destruction; a killer, a murderer, a slayer.
    2. (uncountable) Death; destruction; (countable) an instance of this.

bane v (transitive)

  1. (archaic)
    1. To physically injure (someone or something); to harm, to hurt.
    2. (figurative) To cause (someone) misery or ruin; to socially or spiritually injure (someone).
  2. (UK, dialectal, veterinary medicine) To cause (sheep) a disease, especially the rot (“a disease in which breakdown of tissue occurs”).
  3. (obsolete) To kill (a person or animal), especially by poison.
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